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The moonlight fractured into tiny light spots on the stained glass, as Aelia's fingers, gripping the Wedding Ring Dagger, turned pale. Luna's chubby little hand suddenly slapped against her blood-stained sleeve.
In the silver light emanating from the infant Luna, the newlywed vows from seventeen years ago were reflected in Xing Wu—when Leonard had personally placed the Iris ring in her hair, he swore with the family curse to never betray her.
"Mother, look." Luna bit through her milk tooth, and blood pearls formed three Ouroboros symbols in the silver plate. "The magic restriction in the West Tower's dark room reveals Father's bloodline mark every full moon."
Aelia's hand hovered in mid-air after knocking over the silver plate, oblivious to the crystal fragment that had sliced through her skirt.
Suddenly, she recalled last winter's hunt when a wolf pack attacked, damaging the magic circle. Leonard had deliberately left a gap in the West Tower during repairs.
The baby's sudden loud cry startled Han Ya outside, giving Luna the chance to rub her blood-stained swaddling against Aelia's neck.
In that moment of skin contact, the reincarnated archmage's soul mark forcibly flooded images of the West Tower's dark room into Aelia's mind—a golden fleur-de-lis silk pillow scattered with a handkerchief embroidered with the outer chamber family crest.
"It can't be..." Aelia stumbled and knocked over the alchemy table, as a magic potion bottle exploded, releasing a residual shadow of Leonard conversing with a black robe mage.
She recognized the woman wearing malachite earrings—the traitor's sister whom she had executed three years ago.
The sound of dragonhide boots echoing on the stone steps made Luna's pupils constrict. She deliberately tugged at Aelia's flowing silver hair, pulling hard.
The sharp intake of breath masked the soft sound of the hidden door sliding open.
When Leonard burst in, accompanied by Ye Lu Han Qi, he found his wife sitting alone amidst the ruins with their child, surrounded by lingering wisps of memory-recalling smoke.
"Let me explain!" The lord reached out to touch his wife's shoulder but was met with a sudden slash from the Wedding Ring Dagger that cut across his hand.
As Aelia turned, the Twelve Stars Hair Ornament dangling from her hair chimed softly, each gem reflecting different angles of Betrayal Evidence.
Luna timely blew a Rainbow bubble, wrapping it around the lingering Blue Iris Pollen in the dim room, drifting it to Leonard's nose.
The Lord's face turned pale in an instant, more convincing than any defense he could offer.
Aelia suddenly chuckled lightly, her Fingertip brushing over the Wedding Oath Spell entwined around the dagger, the once-envied Liujin phrases peeling away piece by piece.
"The eight hundred jurors will know tomorrow just how many lies are stained on the Iris Flower Emblem of the Glorious Demon Fortress." She handed the baby to Lucius, who had teleported in, the hem of his black robe still smeared with Iris juice from the West Tower.
Luna suddenly grasped his sleeve adorned with Gold Thread Embroidery, stuffing the hidden Xing Xu into the Family Crest Gap.
Leonard's body erupted with a Defensive Magic Pattern, but he was horrified to discover that the Wedding Ring Dagger was consuming his Magic Source.
Qin Si emerged from the mirror with the Twelve Maids in tow, their Judgment Candelabrum illuminating the overlapping Xu Ying behind the Lord—three women with different faces were growing out from his spine.
"The Twinning Vines you planted when you sought my hand in marriage..." Aelia tore open her collar, revealing a withered Magic Plant at her Heart, "It turns out the fruits were all fed to others." She crushed the gem at the end of the dagger's hilt, and a distant roar of ancient chains echoed from the dungeon.
Luna suddenly let out a sharp Loud Cry, and the hidden Xing Xu within her seized the opportunity to fly out of the window.
Lucius paused his soothing hand on the baby; he recognized that piece of Xing Xu's Track leading towards his elder brother's laboratory.
The Young Mage pretended to adjust the swaddling cloth and whispered to the baby using an Encrypted Communication Spell, "The Calming Elixir you gave your brother this morning..."
The baby suddenly grasped at his Iris Badge on his chest, and the residual Reincarnation Rune warmed slightly where their skin touched.
Lucius's pupils constricted as he finally understood the half of the Blood Emblem emerging from the Ashes—the missing piece was imprinted on the bottom of his elder brother's staff, which he had held for years.
As the judgment Magic Mist seeping from the Floor Tile Gap began to wrap around Leonard's limbs, Luna suddenly struggled and reached out her small hand towards the door.
Everyone turned in shock to see his elder brother, who should have been sequestered in the laboratory, leaning against the Door Frame and gasping for breath. The Magic Slime dripping from beneath his black robe was corroding strange totems into the Peacock Stone Tiles.
The Star Chart in the Laboratory Dome dimmed abruptly, and his brother's roar, filled with black and purple Magic Vortex, echoed through the air.
Luna leaned forward sharply in Lucius's arms, and the Silver Light bursting from her was like an arrow piercing through the chaos—three years ago, when her brother had protected her from being torn apart by a Demon Wolf, the Old Scar now oozed thick Xing Hui beneath his black robe.
"Elemental Collapse Syndrome!" Second Brother burst in after knocking over a Reagent Rack, his sleeve embroidered with Thorn Pattern sizzling as it was corroded.
His trembling fingertip hovered above his brother's twisted spine. "Three years ago, I gave you the Elemental Balance Formula…"
"The third item in the Formula has been altered." Luna suddenly grasped Second Brother's pinky finger, and her delicate infant palm began to emerge a complete Magic Cube Array Projection.
At the center of the rotating geometric shape, where the Light Element should have been, was embedded half of the Blood Clan Emblem—the very part missing from his brother's staff.
Lucius's Star Compass beneath his black robe suddenly went into a frenzy, and the Young Mage swiftly cut his palm to let blood drip onto Luna's Mei Xin.
The Reincarnation Rune awakened Shan Na, and within the baby's pupils reflected the altered Laboratory Protection Array—on a certain Full Moon Night, Leonard's Malachite Earrings refracted an eerie Purple Light at the array's center.
"Father has tainted my brother's Magic Source with a Blood Curse!" Brother San suddenly stumbled out from the shadows, his Element Dice glowing red hot against his palm.
The twelve-sided die that had once been considered a toy floated automatically, each facet reflecting the tragic consequences of what his brother had endured alone over these years.
Luna suddenly bit her tongue, mixing her magic with blood to form an Ice Crystal Key in the air.
Lucius immediately understood, cradling the infant as he rushed toward the corner where the Astrolabe stood.
As the ice key was inserted into the Zodiac lock, the entire stone wall thunderously turned, revealing the long-sealed Astrology Pool—at the bottom lay the Star Sand, which was the Meteor Fragment that her elder brother had stolen ten years ago to lull her to sleep.
"Hold on tight." Luna's chubby palm pressed against Lucius's neck, and the soul pressure of the Reincarnated Archmage caused the pool's water to boil.
The Young Mage struggled through the Magic Turbulence, watching as the infant used a Milk Tooth to tear open a Space Rift, pulling out a half-burned Elements Paradox from the void—this was evidence of their elder brother angering the Council of Elders in the Forbidden Zone to save himself from a curse.
Suddenly, Second Brother yanked off his necklace, and at that moment, as the Twelve Sealing Orbs plunged into the Astrology Pool, a brilliant Star Diamond crystallized from the corrosive liquid on their elder brother's black robe.
Seizing the opportunity, Luna slapped the Elements Paradox into his heart, and a dried violet flower that fell between the Yellowed Pages was their mother’s favorite bookmark during her lifetime.
"Synchronize your breathing!" Brother San roared as he pressed the Element Dice against their elder brother's forehead. The surface of the dice began to reveal a childhood imprint of the Four Siblings holding hands.
The silver threads shot out from Luna and pierced through all the Star Diamonds, weaving a reversing Elemental Siphon Array within the Laboratory Dome—the Blood Curse planted by Leonard was being devoured by thousands of Star Sand.
As their elder brother let out his first clear cry from his throat, an alarmed Night Owl outside crashed into the false moon.
Lucius suddenly covered his right eye; patterns burned onto his iris by Star Sand coincidentally matched those of a certain Ancient Sorcerer's tattoo imprisoned in the dungeon.
"The West Corridor!" Luna suddenly grabbed Brother San by his collar, and tears from the infant fell into the Astrology Pool, reflecting an astonishing scene from Leonard's Last Night—eight years ago at the site where Brother San had abandoned the Thunder Element Awakening Ritual, hands adorned with Malachite Rings rewrote the Element Resonator's Three Degrees.
Brother San trembled violently as his Element Dice Chain, which had hung at his waist for years, suddenly snapped.
Twelve dice automatically arranged themselves into the Confession Cross in mid-air, each number oozing with the mentor's teachings he had missed during his wasted time.
As he trembled while holding the scorching die, Midnight, Luna used her bloodied fingertip to draw an inverted Mobius Strip on his palm—this was the unique magical cycle path created by the Great Mage.
Suddenly, Second Brother grabbed Eldest Brother's hand and pressed it against the edge of the Astrology Pool. The bloodline pattern reflected in the water left everyone breathless—deep within the Blood Curse sown by Leonard, it intertwined with Mother Aelia's Wedding Oath Magic Pattern.
This meant that for eighteen years, every betrayal by Lord had invisibly intensified the backlash suffered by Eldest Son.
Luna suddenly let out a loud cry that shattered the crystal chandelier. From her, a Xing Xu flew out and painted a solution on the wall: the Three Brothers needed to simultaneously activate their sealed talents.
As Second Brother cut open his wrist and let his blood drip into the Element Dice array, hurried footsteps echoed down the corridor, mixed with the scent of Qin Si Te's Iris Sachet.
Moonlight quietly climbed up the Spiral Staircase of East Tower, where Aelia stood beneath the withered Same Heart Vine Arch, her fingertip tracing the cracks on her Wedding Ring Dagger.
At her feet lay seventeen unsent love letters, each sealed with a Fire Seal that captured different starry nights from various ages.
When Leonard's Magic Fluctuation emanated from West Tower, Madame suddenly pressed the dagger against her heart, where a withered Magic Plant was seeping a Blood Pearl laced with Gold Dust—eight hundred subpoenas floated from her wound, transforming into a burning meteor shower in the night sky.
Moonlight condensed into frost on the withered Wisteria Arbor of East Tower as Aelia gazed down at the seventeen yellowed Magic Letters at her feet.
As Qin Si turned through the Emerald Corridor holding Qin Si, she saw Madame using the dagger to pierce open the Fire Wax Seal of the eighth letter, light gold stardust cascading from the crack.
"You should use some Anshen Lu," a maid gently placed a Liuli Bottle on the Stone Steps. The bottle reflected her slightly askew Pearl Hairpin—this was a Rite of Passage given by Aelia to each maid three years ago.
Qin Si suddenly tightened her grip on the lantern handle, and a faint cracking sound came from the Woven Frame. "How dare he use your Star Sand from when you repaired the barrier to make jewelry for Leonard's Concubine!"
Aelia's fingertips brushed over the dried tear stains on the letterhead, the words soaked in the Wedding Oath Magic Pattern fading under the moonlight.
Suddenly, a surge of Magic Turbulence erupted from the direction of the West Tower, lifting her Silver Gray skirt hem. Seventeen Magic Letters transformed into starry butterflies, fluttering into the night sky, piecing together the Starry Sky Totem from Leonard's proposal years ago.
"Madam!" Lucius rushed onto the terrace, his black robe swirling with the sulfur smell of the laboratory. The Star Trail Tattoo on the side of the Young Mage's neck was still oozing blood.
In his open palm lay half of a corroded Family Crest, its edges marked with Luna's Milk Tooth imprint. "We need the root system of that segment of Twinning Vines from your heart."
Aelia's dagger suddenly let out a mournful cry, the Wedding Oath Spell swirling on its blade like a struggling Silver Serpent.
As she tore open her clothing to reveal a wilted Magic Plant, Qin Si gasped in horror at the sight of those once vibrant green vines, now stained a bizarre deep blue akin to Malachite.
The sound of shattering glass echoed from the Laboratory Dome, and Lucius instinctively raised a Xing Hui barrier.
The splattered Purple-Black slime burned through the Protective shield, creating Abyssal Serpent Parasite Holes. Through the breaches, they could see Luna suspended in the center of the Elemental Siphon Array, silver threads pouring from baby Luna entwining around the wrists of Three Brothers.
"Take it." Aelia used her dagger to carve out that glimmering blue Root System. Blood mixed with Gold Dust splattered onto the stone slab, automatically sketching out Leonard's modifications to the Defensive Formation track from years past.
As Lucius took hold of the still-twitching remnants of the Magic Plant, he touched Aelia's cold Wedding Ring with his fingertips. Memories bound by curses surged into his mind—each surge of magic released on full moon nights was a backlash endured by Eldest Son for Mother.
The Carved Door of the West Tower burst open with a crash. Leonard stood there, his cloak dusted with Ashes from judgment Magic Mist.
He held aloft a crystal ball containing an Aurora Butterfly, its wings shimmering in Aelia's favorite Iris Blue from her youth.
However, when his magical tentacles attempted to coil around his wife's ankle, those starry butterfly phantoms suddenly changed direction and shattered the crystal ball amidst a cluster of Black Roses.
"You sent her the Golden Broom Flower Pollen Pillow," Aelia crushed the thorny Hua Zhi at her feet, her bloodied fingertip tracing the Blood Curse dispelling formula in the air, seeping into Eldest Son's marrow for a full seven years. The splattered Crystal Fragment reflected Lucius's cold smile, and within one shard, Luna suddenly emerged, biting at the Blood Curse seal with her Milk Tooth, recalling Leonard's Last Night.
Lucius's Heartroot suddenly convulsed violently, and from the direction of the laboratory came Luna's heart-wrenching Loud Cry.
The Young Mage turned to leave but was ensnared by Leonard's Frost Chains wrapping around his ankle.
Aelia's Wedding Ring Dagger sliced through the air, severing the chains into fragments that transformed mid-air into Malachite Earrings, just like the pair worn by the Outsider Woman years ago.
"Mother!" Brother San's shout rolled in like thunder from the end of the Emerald Corridor, his In Hand Element Dice forming a Confession Cross that was seeping blood.
When Aelia saw that each die was engraved with the Time Node of Eldest Son's backlash, she realized those moments coincided with Leonard's excuse to patrol the barrier. In a sudden fury, she plunged the dagger deep into the stone pillar.
What poured out from the crack was not blood but the Xing Xu that Luna had hidden in advance.
These particles, warm like an infant's body, floated toward the laboratory, connecting in the night sky to form a reversal Formula created by the Great Mage.
Seizing the opportunity, Lucius threw the Heartroot toward the Elemental Siphon Array. The withered Magic Plant sprouted suddenly into a Barbed Silver Sprout upon contact with Xing Hui's Shan Na.
Leonard's Ailya's Roar shattered half of the East Tower's Colored Window. Amidst the rain of glass shards, Aelia saw Luna drawing a Mobius Strip on her brother's forehead with her bloodied finger.
With each circle drawn by the infant, some of the Malachite Shards embedded in her brother's Spine were pushed out, falling to the ground and transforming into Star Sand that merged into the Elemental Siphon Array.
As the first rays of dawn pierced through the clouds, the Star Chart of the Laboratory Dome lit up once more.
Luna lay soaked and limp in Lucius's arms, as the last few grains of Xing Xu drifted from her and quietly burrowed into Aelia’s scattered silver hair—this was a special mark left by the Great Mage for Mother, destined to form a new Guardian Contract on the night of the full moon.
In the twilight, Luna curled up on the Velvet Blanket by the Astrology Pool, her chubby little hands clutching a piece of Malachite Earrings.
The water in the pool reflected her shadow as she gestured with intricate movements. Those chaotic flails, which belonged to an infant, surprisingly took on the semblance of an ancient Dispel Spell under the refracted light of Xing Hui.
Aelia stood in the shadow of the porch, watching her daughter stuff different colors of Star Sand into a Crystal Baby Bottle. The light purple hue in her eyes gradually revealed the Blood Mist of Dawn.
The Star Sand in the laboratory rippled in the twilight, and Luna's figure on the Velvet Blanket stretched into a long silhouette resembling Lucius.
Her chubby fingers dipped into the Astrology Pool, tracing layers of nested geometric patterns on the surface of the Malachite Earrings.
Brother San squatted behind the Reagent Rack, mixing a Magic Potion, oblivious to the Scorch Mark that had corroded his sleeve. The dispelling Formula Luna had crafted last night with Xing Hui was etching new patterns into his long-neglected Thunder Element Dice.
"The seventh elemental Resonance," Second Brother suddenly looked up from a pile of ancient texts, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the Confession Cross floating in mid-air.
The blood-stained dice were resonating with Malachite Shards extracted from Brother Spine, casting a distorted Family Tree Diagram on the Dome. "The missing Resonance frequency is at three degrees southeast..."
Luna suddenly made a Yiya sound, pushing the Crystal Baby Bottle, now covered in Star Sand, towards Second Brother.
Within the liquid refracting Rainbow Light from the bottle, the microscopic structure of Mother Aelia's wilted Magic Plant emerged distinctly.
Brother San's reagent spoon clattered to the ground as they finally understood the Blue-Violet Mycelium entwined around the Root System—it was precisely what Leonard from the Outsider Family specialized in: Parasitic Mushroom Spores.
As Aelia's footsteps mixed with Iris Fragrance approached from the Emerald Corridor, Luna quickly hid the Crystal Baby Bottle in her swaddling cloth.
Madam Silver Gray's skirt swept past the Astrolabe on the porch, and the Wedding Ring Dagger hidden in her sleeve resonated subtly with the Laboratory Protection Array.
She pretended to bend down and arrange Luna's Velvet Blanket, her fingertip slipping a cold Crystal into the baby's grasp of Malachite Earrings.
"The Defensive Formation in the West Tower's dark room has shown signs of disturbance." The lady's cascading silver hair brushed against Luna, and the message transmitted through the Soul Mark caused the baby's pupils to constrict—those Wedding Oath Magic Pattern rubbings hidden by Leonard were now slowly revealing themselves within Aelia's specially crafted Stardust Pocket Watch.
As the moonlight once again crept over the Astrology Pool, a sudden hum resonated from Leonard's Sword, accompanied by the sound of Element Dice.
The Star Diamond beneath the elder brother's black robe began to vibrate violently, prompting Second Brother to immediately cut his fingertip and smear blood onto the Confession Cross.
Brother San's Thunder Element Dice Chain automatically flew toward the Dome, forming a Light Web with twelve dice that projected the geometric patterns drawn by Luna in daylight onto their elder brother's back.
"Now is the time!" Luna bit down on her Milk Tooth, breaking her fingertip as a Blood Pearl landed precisely on the Crystal surface that Aelia had inserted into Moonstone Earrings.
The Malachite suddenly cracked open with a Spider Web-like pattern, and from within surged Xing Xu, condensing into a miniature Magic Castle in the center of the laboratory through Three-Dimensional Projection.
Each tower's Defensive Formation weakness flickered with the Outsider Family's Peacock Blue Youguang.
Lucius appeared amidst the sound of space tearing, his Young Mage black robe still dusted with Ying Huo powder from the Forbidden Zone.
The Ancient Star Chart he brought was snatched by Luna and placed under the Crystal Baby Bottle. The baby's handprint, marked with Yao Zhi, perfectly circled the coordinates sealing the parasitic mushroom from a hundred years ago by the Great Mage.
"Mother planted the remnants of Twinning Vines into the Judgment Altar." Lucius pretended to wipe Luna's mouth corner, quickly reporting through an Encrypted Communication Spell.
The Star Trail Tattoo on his neck warmed slightly, reflecting Aelia as she burned seventeen love letters beneath the Withered Flower Frame—each page's ashes transformed into Tracking Magic Patterns, adhering to Leonard's cloak as he patrolled the barrier tonight.
When the elder brother let out his first clear breath, all vessels in the laboratory suddenly floated and froze in place.
Luna's silver strands burst through the Twelve-Faced Astrolabe, weaving a complete spell-breaking process before everyone’s eyes—requiring the Bloodline Power of the Three Brothers and the remnants of Aelia's marriage vow, to be purified at the moment the Court of Judgment is activated.
Suddenly, Aelia's maid appeared in the doorway, holding a Crystal Cup filled with shimmering purple-red juice that exuded a mesmerizing scent reminiscent of Xing Mang.
As the lady turned away, Luna quickly caught a whiff of the aroma. The Yin Hui flowing within her became turbulent—she recognized it as Blue Blood Fern Juice extracted from the Drunken Dream Grape found in the forbidden grounds of the Court of Judgment. Yet, when Second Brother reached out to touch it, she deliberately knocked over half of the cup.
"Let Luna take a break," Brother San said, placing the remaining juice atop the Astrolabe, unaware that a grape skin bore the claw marks of the Outsider Family.
The infant curled within the Velvet Blanket had a glint of cunning in her eyes; she had secretly hidden Star Sand in her swaddling during the day, and now it quietly absorbed the magical residue lingering on the Cup Rim.
As the last piece of Malachite Shard was stripped from Elder Brother Spine, a sound like an Ancient Bell echoed from the East Tower.
Luna watched Aelia's skirt disappear into the shadows of the Spiral Staircase, while her chubby little hand tightly grasped the piece of Cedar Fragrance Star Sand stained with juice.
The flickering candlelight in the laboratory cast a light purple halo deep within her pupil, reminiscent of the eerie hue of Drunken Dream Grape fermenting under the moonlight.
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